This is the fifth published book from national award-winning author, Thelma T. Reyna, and her first as the editor of an anthology. From over 200 poems submitted by 80 Southern California poets, Reyna – working closely with local poets in a selection committee – chose 105 poems by 60 poets, including 3 Poets Laureate and over a dozen award-winners. This is a distinguished group of writers representing diverse cultures, generations, life experiences, and poetic styles. Their voices are authentic, distinct, and focused on the things we as a society care deeply about: family, community, our environment, peace, war, love, art, loss, and hope.

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Rising, Falling, All of Us (2014)

By Thelma T. Reyna

(Winner of 4 national book honors)

Rising, Falling, All of Us is a collection of poems presenting a gallery of people you know or would want to know: some real and famous, some infamous, some mythical, and many others like those we encounter in our daily lives. Reyna presents the Pope, poets, soldiers, killers, lovers, immigrants, celebrities, the mentally ill, artists, and more. She shows us the human side of everyone in vivid verbal snapshots that grab us and leave us thinking long afterward.

Awards

Finalist in the Poetry: General Category of the "2014 USA Best Books Award"

Selected as a "Book of the Year: 2014" by LatinaBookClub.com

Distinguished as a "RECOMMENDED" book by the US Review of Books

Thelma T. Reyna selected as a "Top 14 Poets in 2014" in the U.S. by LatinaBookClub.com

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Paperback, 6" x 9", 180 Pages

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Petrouchka Alexieva

Khadija Anderson

Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin

Maria A. Arana

Marcia Arrieta

Beth Baird

Tim Callahan

Don Kingfisher Campbell

Gloriana Casey

Victor Cass

Jackie Chou

Michelle Chung

Stephen Colley

Beverly M. Collins

Yago S. Cura

Pauli Dutton

Richard Dutton

Lynn Fayne

Mark A. Fisher

Poets Published in The Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology 2015

Martina Robles Gallegos

Hazel Clayton Harrison

Joan Hoffman

Gerda Govine Ituarte

Briony James

Lois P. Jones

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Mina Kirby

Deborah P. Kolodji

Nancy Lind

Joe Lusnia

Radomir Vojtech Luza

Karineh Mahdessian

Shahe Mankerian

Mira Mataric

Pat Murphy McClelland

Alice Meerson

Jill Meunier

Mary Monroe

Franklin D. Murdock

Janet Nippell

Toti O’Brien

Sharaya Olmeda

Miriam Quezada-Hagerman

Luivette Resto

Thelma T. Reyna

Susan Rogers

Ed Rosenthal

Elsa M.J. Seifert

Nancy Shiffrin

Carl Stilwell

James Storbakken

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Brian John Thorpe

Mary Torregrossa

Jose Trejo-Maya

Maja Trochimczyk

Jonathan Vos Post

Lori Wall-Holloway

Jacquelyn Bellard Wilson

Black Widow Bitches (2016)

By Victor Cass

(Winner of 5 national book awards)

In this gritty, heart-thumping war epic, Cass takes us into the deadly, blood-soaked world of the first all-female combat infantry division.

The current “War on Terrorism” spirals out of control and engulfs much of the globe. Iconic cities and countries have been reduced to smoldering ruins of hopelessness across Europe and much of the free world, as brutal, rampaging terrorists unite across national, ethnic, and political lines to establish a Caliphate and crush millions of innocent resisters.

Opposed to a draft, the U.S. President asks each American family to send one volunteer to fight. A daring woman Army general, Jennifer Reed, proposes a bold move: training women for full-fledged combat in elite, all-women military units. Despite tremendous odds, her plan is grudgingly accepted, and the history-shattering 135th Airborne Division – the “Black Widows” – are born.

A compilation of 86 poets from throughout Southern California, including 7 Poets Laureate, 11 Pushcart Prize Nominees, and over 20 national literary award winners, all representing over 158 books authored by these poets.

All the works in this superb collection were reviewed and selected by 8 published poets serving as a “peer review panel” with the editor, Poet Laureate Thelma T. Reyna. An outstanding contemporary book to add to your collection!

The breadth and depth of these works span generations, cultures, geographical origins, philosophies, and styles – artistically produced here by a literary award-winning press, and edited by two poets with deep roots in the genre and the community of talent they lead and inspire.

Paperback, 6" x 9", 237 pages

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Reading Tea Leaves After Trump (2018)

By Thelma T. Reyna

(Winner of 6 national book awards)

2016: American politics were upended.

For the first time in U.S. history, a woman almost became president. Instead, for the first time, a billionaire with no governance or military experience, a deconstructor of the State, as he described himself, won the November election.

Political analysts declared that Donald J. Trump captured the White House largely through his ability to harness people’s fears, mistrust, economic frustrations, and anxieties about the direction our nation was headed. But a year after his election, for millions of Americans, anxiety persists and new fears have arisen. What are the backstories of these people and the upheavals facing them?

In this collection of poetry and fictional prose, national award-winning author Thelma T. Reyna explores President Trump’s effects on the nation. Speaking in the voices of constituents on both sides of the political aisle, Reyna weaves factual public reports with real and imagined characters to give a reality-based context to the emotions, opinions, fears, hopes, and dreams of Americans in the pivotal first year of the Trump presidency

His family immigrated to America from Mexico with big dreams pushing against poverty. Canto became an amateur boxer at age 15, turned pro at 16, and was the state bantamweight champion of California at age 19, headed for a shot at the world championship title. He was a rising star, a local hero to thousands…until that fateful match at age 20 that left him permanently blind. Shattered, he flailed for 5 long years in depression. When boxing is your life, what can you do as a blind man?

As the first and only blind boxing manager and trainer in the U.S., Canto changed the lives of over 500 young men seeking direction, self-esteem, and championships in a career spanning 60 years and earning Hall of Fame honors. With careful research and cherished recollections, Canto’s younger son Joseph, who was also a boxing champ, shares how his father turned tragedy into selfless accomplishments bigger than life.